Market briefing

Malaysia

With a ranking of 6th, Malaysia sits in the bottom half of the Asian Digital Transformation Index. Its position behind more advanced regional economies such as Singapore and Japan, and ahead of China, Thailand, the Philippines and others is consistent with its performance in other ICT and competitiveness indices. Malaysia displays definite strengths in certain areas of digital infrastructure, particularly in policy. These are offset by weaknesses elsewhere, especially in the industry connectivity category, which assesses the propensity of companies to collaborate with other organisations and communities to advance digital transformation.

At 8th place, Thailand ranks in the bottom half of the Asian Digital Transformation Index, behind the region’s more technologically developed countries but ahead of India, the Philippines, and Indonesia.